Bonner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 1981
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Flood v. State · Maggard v. State · Bradley v. State · Bonner v. State · Matthews v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“the judge did not tell counsel that the defendants in that case would get four consecutive life sentences. He did say that the jury would assess the punishment and that he would run the sentences consecutively. This of course was based upon the version of the facts as presented to him by the attorneys for the parties. The attorney for movant advised him that under the charges he was facing he could receive four consecutive life sentences. The testimony of his at-’ torney was corroborated by movant’s mother, who testified on behalf of her sons. She stated that when she was with Charles their attorney told them that “it was a possibility that they could get four life sentences.” Within the perimeter of the issue raised here we cannot say that the court erred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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